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Aberdyfi
Aberdyfi (Aberdovey) is a Welsh seaside village and former shipbuilding port on the north side of the Dyfi estuary in Gwynedd, within Snowdonia National Park, known for its beach, sailing, ferry history, and Dyfi Biosphere setting.
Abersoch
Abersoch, seaside village on the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, at the mouth of the Afon Soch; former fishing hamlet turned major Welsh sailing and watersports resort, known for tiered beach huts, the South Caernarvonshire Yacht Club, The Warren holiday park, and severe second-home pressure.
Betws-y-Coed
Betws-y-Coed, a Victorian village resort at the eastern gateway to Eryri (Snowdonia) in Conwy, Wales, where the Llugwy and Conwy rivers meet amid Gwydir Forest, known for Swallow Falls, its Conwy Valley railway station, and walking and adventure tourism.
Caerwent
Caerwent, in Welsh Caer-went, is a Monmouthshire village in southeast Wales built on Venta Silurum, the administrative capital of the Silures and the most important civilian Roman settlement in Wales.
Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion
Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach), Ceredigion: Welsh village with three stacked bridges over the Mynach (1753 and 1901 upper spans), 91 m waterfalls, and the 1902 Vale of Rheidol Railway terminus.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (Llanfair PG), Anglesey village on the Menai Strait; extended 58-letter name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, longest place name in Europe, invented in the 1860s as a railway tourism publicity stunt; 2021 population 2,906.
Portmeirion
Portmeirion is an Italianate visitor village on the Dwyryd Estuary, Gwynedd, North Wales, built by architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis from 1925 to 1976, famous as the filming location of The Prisoner and the namesake of Portmeirion pottery.